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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 5:10am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:17am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | rdenirojb87 | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 11:52am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats (I've Got A Tiger By The Tail!) |
Lyrics By: Owens, Howard
Music By: Owens, Howard
I've got a tiger by the tail it's plain to see
I won't be much when you've got through with me
Well I'm losing weight and I'm turning mighty pale
Looks like I've got a tiger by the tail
Well I thought the day I met you you were meek as a lamb
Just the kind to fit my dreams and plans
Now the pace we're living takes the wind from my sails
And it looks like I've got a tiger by the tail
Well every night you drag me where the bright lights are found
There ain't no way to slow you down
I'm about as helpless as a leaf in a gale
And it looks like I've got a tiger by the tail
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 4:06pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats (I've Got A Tiger By The Tail!) |
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Poster: | ice9freak | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:31am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:42am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | ice9freak | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 10:30am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
"Moonlight wails as hound dogs bay" (lazy river road)
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Poster: | boltman | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:45am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
(kind of cheatin' here, but the only one I could think of)
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:50am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | Jacky Hughes | Date: | Oct 30, 2011 2:21pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 30, 2011 11:48pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
But in the song, it's clearly a star, not a dog. While lyrics have a lot of leeway for interpration, "counting stars by candlelight" would not reasonably mean "walking through Beverly Hills during a blackout and seeing how many movie stars are out," and it would not count on a list of gods, even though there are many mythologies where stars and gods are equated; and the "spiral light of Venus" could not be counted on a list of plants or insects based on the argument that it refers to a firefly spiraling around inside a Venus Flytrap, and fireflies and Venus Flytraps are just as real as planets/stars. So, too, does the Dog Star refer to a star in the sky, not a canine, and hence cannot go on a list of Deadly doggies.
If, on the other hand, the line had gone, "where's the dog star? Where's his bone? He's a lost Fido, Orion wants him home" ... well, you'd have a point.
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Poster: | Jacky Hughes | Date: | Oct 31, 2011 2:07pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Interesting |
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 31, 2011 7:04pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Interesting |
b) He's telling a really steamy story to a bunch of guys, so they're thinking about a hot girl
c) None of the above
I get your point, but allusiveness jumps off from the concrete. "Dog star" might have feelings or ideas that jump off of it that relate to the word "dog" (rather than, say, North Star, which would fit the rhythm but give a different feeling). Still, dog modifies star; star doesn't modify dog. Of course, that may not matter to any given individual ...
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Oct 31, 2011 3:25pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
The astrolabe, or ‘star grasper’ was based on a star map drawn up by the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Hipparchus. The map was engraved on a disk of brass or bronze 10 to 50 centimetres in diameter, with a pointer, called an alidade, mounted at the centre of the disk. A bright star's altitude above the horizon was measured using the alidade and a scale engraved on the back rim of the astrolabe.
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Poster: | boltman | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:52am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:56am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | rdenirojb87 | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 11:50am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats, Promised Land |
"And that 'Hound broke down and left us all stranded,
In downtown Birmingham"
and how about a greyhound?
"I straddled that Greyhound and rode him past Raleigh,
And on across Caroline"
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Poster: | unclejohn52 | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 12:23pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats, Promised Land |
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Poster: | rdenirojb87 | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 12:30pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats, Promised Land |
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Poster: | Old_NJ_Head_Zimmer | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 2:36pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats, Promised Land |
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Poster: | rdenirojb87 | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 3:22pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats, Promised Land |
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Poster: | dark.starz | Date: | Oct 31, 2011 1:48pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats, Promised Land |
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Oct 31, 2011 2:23pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats, Promised Land |
Why lie to the good folks here?
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Poster: | bailey-g | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:36pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
As far as teaching a cat goes,its more of a take what they already do and run with it kinda thing. Same book says he also had em fetching.
Used to have one that would fetch. She did it,I encouraged it. Cats are psychedelic characters for sure.
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:20am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:23am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
Walkin the dog
I'm just a walkin the dog ...
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 5:59am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:42am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | turnphilup | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:53am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1972-08-27.sbd.hollister.2199.sbeok.shnf
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Poster: | ringolevio | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 7:40am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
Or catfish?
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:17am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
Catfish John is a guy. But if it was a cat, it could go in the Honorable Mention category, since it's JGB -- unless the Dead played it. Did they?
China Cat I already counted. Hunter referred to it being inspired by a cat walking on his belly to Jupiter, so it clearly refers to an actual cat. And no one can prove otherwise.
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Poster: | light into ashes | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 11:14am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 5:40am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | questionoflife | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:19am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
Than to stay here in Frisco, be treated like a dog"
(IKYR, Fillmore West 5/15/70)
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Poster: | polarized blue | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 4:47pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
Hey wait a minute!! I shot my dog because he barked at you, Valerie, won't you be true to me? Well, Jerry Garcia Band, I suppose that might count, AltheaRose?
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Poster: | questionoflife | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 6:53am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | rdenirojb87 | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 9:53am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 5:37am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | dogsinapile! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 7:16am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:29pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats Tally |
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Poster: | DeadRed1971 | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:58pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats Tally |
Sirius-ly.
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Poster: | AltheaRose | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 9:28pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats Tally |
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:14am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Dogs and Cats |
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:18am |
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Oct 29, 2011 8:15am |
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